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Sunday, January 13, 2013

New Zealand Studies Association annual conference deadline for papers extended to 23 January

Herewith details for next year’s conference of the New Zealand
Studies Association. This gathering promises to exceed the previous
conferences, with the theme designed to accommodate a strong spectrum of
speakers and delegates. With the Association’s new twice-yearly publication,
the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, commencing in March
2013, we welcome papers that address any aspect of the South Pacific region,
with a priority given to Polynesia. There are 4 strands to this conference and
with New Zealand Studies remaining a central focus, the strand ‘New Zealand as
a South Pacific Nation’ is broad enough to include most New Zealand Studies
topics. We look forward to welcoming you to the Netherlands. A copy of the
conference poster will follow in the next email. The very best - Ian

New Zealand
and the South Pacific

The
19th annual conference
of the New Zealand Studies Association,
together with the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies,
Radboud University

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

27-29 June 2013

The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in
promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference
in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, the 2009 conference in Frankfurt,
and the 2012 conference in Gdansk, the 2013 gathering of the NZSA will be
located at Radboud University, Nijmegen. This very special conference will be
held in the Netherland's oldest city, easily connected to Amsterdam, and near
the banks of the Waal river. On the Friday, there will be a special excursion,
followed by a conference dinner.

Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 23 January to Ian Conrich
(email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk)
or Toon van Meijl (t.vanmeijl@ru.nl).
The conference will consider all papers that address issues within one of the
four following strands: [1] New Zealand as a South Pacific nation, [2] New
Zealand in relation to any of the South Pacific countries (Polynesia,
Australia, and beyond), [3] Maori Studies, [4] The South Pacific (with papers
accepted on any of the islands and any aspect of the region, but with a
priority given to Polynesia). Definitions within these parameters are broad,
with the first strand, for instance, covering much of New Zealand Studies and
welcoming any papers on New Zealand as a country positioned within the South
Pacific, or as a nation with a South Pacific identity. The conference fee will
include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2013 includes a twice-yearly
journal, and one book each from the New Zealand Film Classics and
the New Zealand Writers series of monographs. Papers from the
conference will be published in the refereed Journal of New Zealand and
Pacific Studies, published by Intellect.